Jorge Varanda graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Coimbra, pursued an MSc in Medical Anthropology and later a PhD in Social History of Medicine, both, at the University College London. He was a visiting auxiliary professor at the University of Coimbra where he taught in the BSC of Anthropology and Master of Medical Anthropology. He is responsible for the course of Anthropology of Health in the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Lisbon) PhD program on International Health. He is a research fellow at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and also collaborates with the Global Health and Tropical Medicine of the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Over a decade, he has been researching health issues in Portuguese-speaking Africa, namely Angola, where he conducts regular fieldwork. He was the principal investigator (PI) of a research project on colonial and global public health programs against African Human Trypanosomiasis — sleeping sickness — in Angola (1900s-2013). Currently, he is the national Portuguese PI in a US project on the emergence and spread of the HIV-1 and HIV-2-AIDS viruses focusing on Angola and Guinea-Bissau respectively. He is also PI of a Gulbenkian Foundation project of digitalisation and study of the secret police of the Diamand Company of Angola (Diamang). Amidst other works, he was a consultant on the design and implementation of the Verbal Autopsy for the DSS (Demographic Surveillance System) of the Health Research Centre of Angola (CISA). His publications touch on various topics related to Angola, Diamang, Public Health anti-sleeping sickness campaigns; colonial medicine and forced labour; cross-colonial knowledge transfer and colonial photographs. His latest publications include an edited volume on Angola, and more recently the emergence of HIV-1 and Angola and Verbal Autopsy mortality. He will be publishing on the role of Anthropology in Global Health and Guine-Bissau and the emergence of HIV-2.